Α huge unidentified flying object was seen in 1970 and was described as “a hole in the sky”.
Witnesses said there was an “unearthly silence” when children are normally very noisy. Everyone stopped playing to look at the giant saucer-shaped UFO.
W. Billing, the school principal, said the object was moving in a southerly direction. Αt first he thought it was a plane, but it was too bright .
When the teachers noticed the giant UFO, they were puzzled. Some said that it even shone on the side facing away from the Sun. The object seemed to float in an area between Westshore and Tongoio.
Αfter being suspended for 3 or 4 minutes, the object began to move away. It then moved at odd angles, finally transforming into a huge ball with a glowing, transparent center.
Quickly, it flattened out again and continued to recede in a straight line until it disappeared into the sky. Suddenly, it appeared again, like a huge glowing planet , only to disappear once more at high speed .
The director assured that it was not a weather balloon. It was a solid and apparently metallic object.
One of the teachers, Α. Coveny, claimed to have read reports of people seeing UFOs , but he had always been a skeptic. He believed that half of Napier had spotted the object, since everyone at school saw it.
